Classical music and jazz: Latest news
Published: 18 March 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
SARAH Probert and her mother Anita Probert, members of the Highgate singing family, will be taking solo soprano rolls in Saturday’s concert being given by the Cholmeley Choral Society. The concert programme at St Mary’s Brookfield, Dartmouth Park, comprises Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Schubert’s Mass in G and Parry’s Blest Pair of Sirens.
Other choral societies are giving their early spring performances on Saturday evening. At St Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill, the Camden Choir is singing an interesting collection of works by Henry Purcell and his contemporaries, Henry Aldrich, William Child, William Turner and Michael Wise.
At the Hampstead Garden Suburb Free Church, the Finchley Choral Society is performing a selection of mostly French music, leading off with the Duruflé Requiem and Poulenc’s Litanies à la Vierge Noire and other settings by Laloux, Villette and Casals.
Also on Saturday evening, the Camden Chamber Orchestra is giving a performance of Sibelius’s 8th Symphony and other works at Emmanuel Church, Lyncroft Gardens, West Hampstead.
On Sunday at Burgh House, Hampstead, there’s a fundraiser for the Sheena Booth Music Trust, a charity based in north-east London supporting the musical enrichment of children and young people.
Sunday’s free afternoon concert at St George’s Bloomsbury will be a performance by the Triquetra Trio of music for saxophones, cello and piano.
Thursday’s free lunchtime recital at St Pancras Church will be some lovely music for the viola and piano played by Carmen Flores and John Foster.